"The Take-home lesson" -If they don't know
the secret handshake,
they are definitely the devil.

Of that you can be sure!

Secret
Mormon Handshakes Know
ye them!

We Mormons can never be sure
quite of people.
Who is OK? Who is not?
Or worse!

That's why Joseph Smith, our Seer and
Revelator, has revealed to us of the Secret Handshakes.

This secret
(formerly only sacred)
way of clasping another's hands is so we can surely know
who
the other person
is... friend or foe? Good or evil?

Click on Pictures to
see the details...

If you meet someone who you can't be sure of
who he / she is: are they the devil in disguise? Are they OK?
Are
they a real person or are they an angel?Here
is where our special handshake comes in handily: "The Sure Sign Of The
Nail"

Surreptitiously Photographed
in the Salt Lake City Temple, 1991.

Photo Courtesy
http://www.mrm.org/photo-album.html

Above - An excerpt from the Mormon Temple ceremonies -- where we limber up our hands to practice
the secret handshakes.

It's called "The Sure Sign Of The
Nail". (Not to be confused with "The Sign Of The Nail" handshake.) It's
used like this: Here is THE Logic
-

1 Suppose you meet someone and you think he
may be the devil. Shake their hand the normal way.

2 If
they feel like noting -- like air, you know immediately that this person
is the devil or a spiritual being!. Act
accordingly !

3 If
they feel solid, like you or I, they may be probably OK, but we don't
know for sure, do we?Try the secret handshake with this person If
they reciprocate -- if they know the secret handshake -- they are
an angel!
If they don't know the secret handshake, they are surely a real person,
because they feel solid.

"The Second Token of the Melchizedek
Priesthood, the
Patriarchal Grip,
The Sure Sign of the Nail is given
by clasping
right hands and interlocking
little fingers, and placing the
index
finger of the right hand on the center of
the wrist.

The
name is "Health in the navel,
marrow in the bone, strength in the
loins and in the sinews, power in the
priesthood be upon me and
upon
my posterity through all generation
of time and throughout
all eternity".

This handshake is also used to get you into heaven (celestial kingdom). Mormons as
well as non-mormons must know this to gain eternal glory. If you forget, don't worry, an angel will be at the gate to prompt you thru the handshaking
ceremony. We know this is true, because the scripture tell us so.

Is it secret or sacred?

Instructions given by Joseph Smith:

"Doctrine & Covenants" Section 129:1 There are
two kinds of beings in heaven, namely: Angels, who are resurrected personages, having
bodies of flesh and bones;2 For instance, Jesus said: Handle me and see, for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have. 3 Secondly: the spirits of just men made perfect, they who are not resurrected, but inherit the same glory. 4 When a messenger comes saying he has a message from God
(sic), offer him your hand and request him to shake hands with you. 5 If he be an angel he will do so, and you will feel his hand. 6 If he be the spirit of
a just man made perfect he will come in his glory; for that is the only way he can appear;7 Ask him to shake hands with you, but he will not move, because it is contrary to the order of heaven for a just man to deceive;
but he will still deliver his message. 8 If it be
the devil as an angel of light, when you ask him to shake hands he will offer you his hand, and you will not feel
anything; you may therefore detect him. 9 These are three grand keys whereby you may know whether any administration is from God.

Joseph Smith, Nauvoo, Illinois, February 9, 1843. History of the Church 5:267.

Mormonism,
or the LDS Church, is one of the world’s fastest growing
religions. But unless you were raised a Mormon, you probably
don’t have a clear picture of this great religion, which was
unearthed by Joseph Smith, a nearly illiterate farm ...

Often
Non-Muslims have no idea that Muslims worship the same God
and that Islam preaches compassion as well as hatred,
charity, humility, and brotherhood as well as disdain for
infidels.
Mohammad founded Islam in 610 CE after the angel Gabriel
allegedly...

When
and how are the spirits of just man made
perfect? "The spirits of just men made
perfect" refers to men made perfect by
having their sins washed away by the
blood of Christ. We have had our sins
washed away and have come to have
fellowship with others who have been
made perfect by having their sins washed
away. Adam Clarke in his Commentary on
Hebrews 12:23, "In several parts of this
epistle teleiov, the just man,
signifies one who has a full knowledge
of the Christian system, who is
justified and saved by Christ Jesus; and
the teteleiwnemoi are the adult
Christians, who are opposed to the nhpioi or babes in knowledge and
grace...The spirits of the just men made
perfect, or the righteous perfect, are
the full grown Christians; those who are
justified by the blood and sanctified by
the Spirit of Christ. Being come to
such, implies that spiritual
union which the disciples of Christ have
with each other, and which they possess
how far so ever separate; for they are
all joined in one spirit, #Eph 2:18;
they are in the unity of the spirit,
#Eph 4:3, 4; and of one soul, #Ac 4:32.
This is a unity which was never
possessed even by the Jews themselves in
their best state; it is peculiar to real
Christianity: (See Heb 12:29)."

There is no way we could have come to
the "spirits" of those in Heaven? If
they were in Heaven, they would be
beyond our reach unto we are in Heaven
with them. We would not have come to
them.

"And
to the spirits of the righteous made
perfect" [New Revised Standard Version].
If disembodied spirits were in Heaven
and in any way had fellowship or
communication with us it would prove
Spiritualism, which is forbidden by God.
Most all who uses this to prove the soul
is now immortal do not believe we have
any communication with the dead if they
are in Heaven, Hell, the grave, or any
other place, therefore, we have not come
unto them.

WHEN THIS IS USED TO PROVE THE SPIRIT IS
ALIVE AND THEREFORE, IMMORTAL AFTER
DEATH FOR THE "SOUL" OF THOSE WHO ARE
DEAD ARE NOW MADE PERFECT, IT MAKES THE
JUDGMENT AND RESURRECTION BE 100%
TOTALLY USELESS.

Hamilton says spirit (pneuma) refers to
God 288 times, to evil spirit 30 times,
and 40 times pneuma refers to the human
spirit (Truth Commentaries, 1 Peter,
Page 370). W. E. Vine lists a number of
ways pneuma refers to man, to "the human
spirit," they must therefore be part of
the 40 times. (f) The sentient element
in man, that by which he perceives,
reflects, feels, desire...(g) purpose
aim...(i) character...(j) moral
qualities and activities: bad...
stupor... timidity... good... liberty...
meekness... faith... quietness." As
these all refer to the human spirit,
they must be a part of the 40 times, but
not a one in his list refers to a part
of a person that lives after the death
of the person. Hamilton says on page 364
that the Soul may mean life, persons,
the heart, the mind, or the spirit.
From what both W. E. Vine and Hamilton
say, some of the 40 times means the
mind. etc. Therefore, the times pneuma
can refer to an internal immortal part
of a person would be less than 40 times.
But, he did not say how many or list
them, which is the very thing he needed
to prove his point. Just saying that a
part of less than 40 times means a
person has an immortal spirit does not
get the job done. How often, one, five
or more? Where are they? Hence, the GREAT CONFUSION: Soul or spirit
or both? Try
the Mormon handshake, for Christ's sake.